Guys, we are back. We are we're back. It has been I don't know why. We say it every time, but it's been a week, but this week and last week, and I just feel like this month has been extremely um spiritual, um, heartwarming, and vital to the black community. Uh and the reason why I say that is because if you're black, you have been following the Carmelo Anthony case, um just off the heels of the um shooting of a 14-year-old uh teenager, 14-year-old child um at a shell gas station by a Asian man, which what I'm thinking is he it was the son. I'm just gonna put it out there on this fucking podcast, The Black Paradigm.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Allegedly, this is just Arcus.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

It's just allegedly, but um it comes off the hill of that. Uh and I just feel that we'll get into it more into the pod into this episode, but I just feel like as a community as a whole, I think, I don't think I know because I've I've I've been talking to a lot of black people. I've been seeing it on Twitter and Instagram and threads, and that the community is something spiritual is happening. Something is is happening, and I think we feel it all over.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Yeah, um, it's definitely something they foot. And I would say the month has been heartwarming with moments of heartbreak.

SPEAKER_04 2:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

I think our 400-year contract, if you know, you know, I do think our four year a 400-year contract is coming to a close, but they're trying everything they can to get niggas back in the streets, to get us upset, to get us angry, to transmute that energy, to get us back into another vicious cycle.

SPEAKER_04 2:41

And we can't We're not gonna do that. We can't do that. We can't.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

We can't afford another 400 years.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

No, we we have to organize. We we and I think that's what we're doing um in our way, in a way that none of these other races have seen before. So, and it honestly, it's you know, people are starting to talk. You know, they're putting these um bots, uh, so many bots online. Um, they're putting these anchors of certain races online trying to rile up black people. Uh, and you know, we're not falling for it. And every single time it gets deeper and deeper and deeper to the point where they have so many different videos of them trying to attack us in these videos, these bots, and we're not falling for it because we know what you're trying to do. You're trying to rile us up, aren't you? Well, it's not gonna work this time. So, with that being said, niggas, welcome back to the black paradigm. Our email is the blackparadigm77 at gmail.com. And uh let's just go ahead and hop into it. Uh, let's hop into mental health. You want to start? You want me to start, baby?

SPEAKER_00 4:03

I think it's tradition, you start.

SPEAKER_04 4:05

Yeah. Yeah. So, guys.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

I mean, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

I had to do an Uno reverse. Um, so here's the thing, man.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

A week turnaround.

SPEAKER_04 4:23

A week we just talked about this last week. We just talked about this last week. Um went back to my job, my full-time job. And first of all, Monday. I I wasn't I was going into it with kind of like I was optimistic. I didn't know walking back into my job with all the love that I was going to receive, walking into that place. Like, I I was I was kind of thrown off. I'm I'm not even gonna lie. I was thrown off, I was shocked, I was like, people were giving me hugs left and right, and so long story short, Cedric, because we talked about I I got into the ass last week, Cedric approved most of my um mental health leave. Two days before I was supposed to be going back to work. And I said, What the fuck is going on? I said, Universe, you doing something because you you were trying me. You were, you see, you were thinking, you were gonna see if I was gonna motherfucking fold. And the universe said he can handle it. Now, I'm gonna let you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the strongest player. I'm not the strongest player. Don't do that shit. Don't do that shit no more. I am I am not the strongest player. When people say, oh, you I'm God, you one of God's chosen. Mm-mm. No, ma'am, no ma'am. Give it to somebody else. Give it to somebody else, baby, because I will crash the fuck out. I will crash the fuck out, and people will be like, oh yeah, he need to, he needs to exit. He needs to exit.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

What?

SPEAKER_04 6:21

Expeditiously.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Expeditiously. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

And so I had a couple of talks with my managers, and you know, they were asking me, like, well, what do you need from us? What do you need? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, we're so glad that you took that mental health lead. What can we do to make your life better here? And I told them. I gave them five things. I gave them five things that can make my life better at work. Now, with that being said, I told y'all I had another full-time job. Baby, let me tell you my experience in the medical field. People that work in nursing homes, I give you guys flowers on top of flowers, on top of flowers, on top of flowers, bouquets after bouquets after bouquets, raise after raise after raise, baby. Because extra strength. Extra strength, baby. Because when I tell you first of all, I went in there last night after I got off my other job. I said, ooh, baby, I'm gonna be up for 18 hours today. Went in there, I already felt something. The energy was off. Y'all know I'm a fucking Libra. When I feel the energy is off, the energy is fucking off. First hour, we just sitting down, you know, talking, going over, talking about patience and stuff like that. Baby, these elderly people, these elderly white people, by the way, done cuss my black ass out left and right. Done cuss done cuss my black ass out, left and right. Done call me all kinds of son of a bitches. Get the fuck away from me. Touch me if you want to. I said, okay, we're gonna go back to your apartment because that's what we call them the apartments back to their rooms. Hey, baby. This lady told me, you put your hands on me, we gonna box. And I said, Okay, well, that that's not what we're gonna do. Uh she said, I'll do it if I want to do it. I said, Okay, I'm gonna leave you alone. She goes, that'd be your best bet. I had to remove myself about four to five times, y'all. Because it and I texted my therapist this morning, I said, hey, we need a session. We already have a session coming up, but I said, we we need one immediately. He said, What's going on? I said, I'm about to hurt an elderly person. The mental the mental strength that RAs, CNA's, nurses, LPNs. Again, the strength that you guys have.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

The patience of Jove, because baby, hey.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

Listen, that man looked me in my face to call me a son of a bitch, and I had a flashback. I had a flashback, honey, of me smacking a motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

What? But that TJ, I gotta I gotta interject here, and I'ma shut up after this.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

What kill, especially about elderly white people, you can forget what you did your entire life. You can forget the key players in your life, spouses, children, grandchildren, siblings, friends. You forget what you did for a living. But you ain't gonna forget to call me a nigga or a son of a bitch, though.

unknown 10:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:50

Like, and my co-worker, well, my former co-worker, because I ain't going back.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Uh y'all had this shit, bitch. I fucking die.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

He said, Cut the job.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

Baby, my co-worker told me, she said, Oh yeah, last night he called me a nigga. I said, huh? She said, Yeah, I'm about to put in my two weeks' notice. I said, Oh. So, but why am I here? Yeah, she said, she said, baby, she said, I don't get paid enough to be called no nigga. I said, and you don't. Nobody can pay you enough to be called that. Nobody. Not a soul. Not a soul, baby. And she said, yeah, I gotta get the fuck up out of here. She said, because I've I've already been in jail.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I said, Yeah, this ain't the place for you, Steve. This is not the place for you, baby. This is not the place for you, baby. Not the place.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

She said, she said, that right there. She said, that one right there, baby. She said, that's why I'm sitting over here. She said, because I can't. She said, I can't. And I will not talk to that man. I said, I know that's the right baby.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

I'm a Pisces with a fire moon and fire rising. I am an evil bitch. I will put your dentures in the fucking vent. I won't let you sit and shit. You fuck around me. I'll put your food in the blender and make it. Don't you ever in your fucking life fix your puny ass my monkey lips to call me the motherfucking nigger. And you, yeah, yeah, nigga.

SPEAKER_04 12:37

They can, they, they can, they can forget everything that has happened to them.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Everything but that shit.

SPEAKER_04 12:43

Except looking at a motherfucking black person and calling us a fucking nigga.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

That's how you know that shit is so ingrained and it's not on you. It's in them.

SPEAKER_04 12:54

Mm-hmm. It's not on them. It's in them.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Like, it's it's that's that's and and when you call me, I honestly when I called you when we talk, we talk every Thursday before chat. And I literally was like, oh, he's he's playing. You was you said, oh no, I turned up, I turned, bitch, I turned in my bed. You were serious.

SPEAKER_04 13:19

Baby, these therapy sessions, let me tell you something. What I told what I told my boss at my my first full-time job, let me tell you, at my first and only full-time job, what I told them. I said, I am healing. I am not healed. Okay. Just so you know.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

I am not healed, baby. Okay. That last night, baby. Oh, baby, I could have gone to jail. They would have had to call the motherfucking services on me, baby. They would have had to strap me the fuck down. Because after that, that man looked me dead in my eyes and said, You son of a bitch. I said. Baby. Absolutely not. After three, after 3 a.m. Because my shift was 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Oh, bitch, I'm already tired.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Oh, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. That motherfucker told me that shit at 2 a.m. Baby, do you know I didn't say nothing else to his ass? I said, nah, baby. Let me stay in my safe space, okay? You bag with the fools. Baby, and she listen, shout out to my other three co-workers, my former co-workers, because they was trying to, you know, help out and stuff like that. Baby, it's nothing you can do to say that man.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Nothing.

SPEAKER_04 14:46

It's nothing that you can do to say that man because I'm going to push him over. I'm going to push his fucking wheelchair over, baby. And he's going to be begging for someone to go and get his ass up. I can't do it. Listen, my mama did it for 15 years, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 15:01

She's an angel. Got to be. To deal with that. You have to be an angel or you have to love that. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of people, and a lot of people love, they, they, they love doing that. Because they have the mindset, the mental capacity. But I'm thinking to myself, my mama did this for 15 years. And came home and had to raise three boys. Really four, including my nephew, my oldest nephew. Four boys. Oh, hell no. Someone said, You didn't even last a day, bitch. And didn't. Because guess what? I know. Because that's why you go to therapy. You know your motherfucking limits. And every black man and black woman, get a therapist. Please do. If you have the means, the funds, or you have the benefits from your job to go and get therapy, do it.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Or some states and some counties, you can go to the free health clinic and get access.

SPEAKER_04 16:20

Yeah, yeah. So please do that because I learned that this right off back. And I stayed my whole shift. I didn't fold. I didn't leave early. I stayed my whole shift. I understood what was happening, what was going to happen. And this was this was it. And I said, oh no, baby, not me. Not TJ. Not TJ motherfucking still, nigga. So um, yeah. Um, that was uh, that was interesting. I'm glad I learned that. I'm glad I know that anything that I do in the medical field from now on will be at a hospital or be at a clinic. It will not, it it just, and even with that being said, it's going to have to be the right position. And the right clientele because shit. I see. But hospitals are, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I can see why some of them would push y'all old old asses down steps and shit. Y'all was evil. And then be confessed. And then another part of it, I had a friend of mine who worked in a nursing home for three years. She told me damn near every last one of her patients, y'all were committing to murders. Like right before y'all die, y'all be had, oh, there's people watching me. No, those are not people. Those are the spirits y'all haunted when y'all ass was walking on this earth. She had people, old white men, telling her, Yeah, I roped a black girl, killed her, put her in the back of my trunk. You, you want to confess your shit off on me because you're about to die thinking that's gonna lead you to the happy place. Like, oh my God. I couldn't deal.

SPEAKER_04 18:02

Oh, and after we left, um the 6 a.m. crew um were coming in and we were told, we were telling them, like, the end, you know, what had happened. He, this man has been cussing all night, right? Been cussing all night. He told us, and it was, it was three of us, three black people right there. He looked at all of us, he said, have you ever seen a cross lit on fire in the front yard? And I looked at my my former co-worker Kanisha, I said, Oh, this bitch was in motherfucking clan. He was part of the Klan. He said, Yeah, we used to, we used to light those crosses on in the yard on fire and wait for them to come out. And I said, What did you say? He said, huh? I said, Oh yeah. I said, Yeah, yeah, the these people, they real evil. All of this evil, it's it's there.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

All you would have heard was, I gotta go, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_04 19:01

Maybe I told that nurse, I said, hey, have fun. She said, huh? Have fun.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

MC Deborah said hell no. You know, uh-uh.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Shout out to MC Deborah. Shout out to MC Deborah. Legendary. But yes, that is um, I'm so glad I have a therapist. Shout out to uh Jared, Jared Prentice. Uh yes, shout out to you uh for keeping me sane, keeping me, you know, knowing my triggers. Okay. So uh shout out to therapists in general. And again, I give my flowers to anybody that works in a nursing home, CNA, RA, LPN, anyone that works in a nursing home, because you guys are doing literally the Lord's work.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Should.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

Yeah. So what's been going on? Go ahead, Boo.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

No, I was just saying I sympathize with them because maybe I but then again, like you said, for some people that is a calling in their life. Yeah.

unknown 20:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Most definitely. Not TJ's. Um go ahead, Boo. What's what's going on with your mental health?

SPEAKER_03 20:19

None.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Just what uh what you got in my 40, homie? None. I'm just here. Um I'm just here. Uh nothing good, nothing bad, just I tell you what, the job market is so ass. I'm trying to apply for a part-time job. Kenny, I've applied at gas stations. I applied at Regal where I'm always at at the movies. I applied to the other movie theater in town. I applied for a part-time job at fucking Walmart. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Then it's just like it does, you know, I forgot that, you know, it's summer, so everybody's coming back for summer break. But it's just like, damn, like, you know how hard and how bad the economy is. You can't even get a part-time job.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Mm-hmm. Even a lot of times you have to call, a lot of times, and I'm sorry to interrupt you, Boo, but a lot of times you have to call these places because what happens, and that's what happened to me, um at the hospital, I had to call them, you know, because I told you I had an interview with them uh in a couple of weeks, but they didn't even they they they didn't even see my application come through. Like they didn't get a notification, they didn't get nothing because the systems, a lot of these companies are using these AI models, and these AI models are not notifying them about people that are applying. So you have to call them and they legal like not legally, but they they they literally have to go on their computer and be and search your name. So if I were you. I know, and I know, but baby, it I'm telling your application is probably somewhere in the like in in in the stratosphere, baby, and they have to look it up because that AI shit, especially on Indeed and all of that shit.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

And then it's just like you'll get and the crazy thing is for the whole LinkedIn. LinkedIn used to work for me. My last two jobs I had, I got them LinkedIn through recruiters. But then I had got it. Uh um, I hate Indeed. I've never had any luck with Indeed. I ended up getting an email from Indeed, and I rarely look, I just look at the email, usually delete it, but there was a job that caught my eye. So it was a new job post it. Click on the fucking position. Oh, they're no longer accepting applications. Why the fuck? And then it's just like they recycle the same two fucking jobs. Don't nobody want to be a salesperson? Don't nobody want to work in these little third-party little rink and deep offices selling dumb shit. Like, yeah, what the fuck, man?

SPEAKER_04 23:10

Yeah. Yeah, they they be I see a lot of that recycling. Like, and you really on Indeed, you have to go in and search for the exact job you're looking for, and then you have to like filter that shit out. It don't tell you, you can't just say health because it'll give you the same recycle job. Motherfuckers quit every three, four months.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

But then the fucked up thing is too, there'd be like like LinkedIn is really good about this too. Like, it'll be jobs that I've seen advertised with them for years, and I've applied for it. And I've done a social experiment, I've applied for these jobs multiple fucking times. I've even the only thing I use Chat GPT, because I don't I don't like AI, but I will use it for job searching to tailor my resume.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

10%, I I say this, I hate 90% of AI, but 10% can be used to, you know, help out with you know, so it's just like I used um AI to apply.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

I said, hey, this is the job posting, tailor my resume to this. A job that I haven't applying for for the last four fucking years, did it with AI. They called me right away. The only caveat was they talk about ask me how much they want to pay me an hour for a data entry job.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

$16.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

$14 and 34 cents. I said, you gotta be out of your feet.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

Well, you know, there's a new, there's a new study. They did a new um study. Tennessee is the lowest in um pay. The lowest. Right. They didn't study. Yeah. Tennessee is the lowest.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

I can go to fucking, I can go to Walmart or McDonald's are probably more. I'm like $14 and $30. And then here's the crazy thing. It's like we're regressing so bad. Well, we're regressing bad as a society anyway, when it comes to politics, um, social economic standards, when it comes to how we think about genders and gender roles, that's, you know, women's rights. But we're going back in the pay. You mean to fucking tell me somebody that works flipping the burger makes more money than somebody doing data injury role? Or, you know, I just, I truly feel like me and my god sister, shout out to Haley. We um, if I would have known, I know now, I wouldn't have gone to fucking college. I would have gotten to train and been an electrician or been a railroad conductor. I just fucking applied to let me tell you how my mental health is doing. I fucking applied to be an offshoresman. Bitch, I can't swim. I couldn't tell you the first fucking thing about being an offshoresman, but I fucking spent two hours in applying for the fucking job and was watching TikTok videos on how to do the shit and fucking basically because the bitch is fucking desperate. Yeah. Because I shouldn't have to move, well, not voodoo, voodoo. Shouldn't have to do move fucking mountains. But I applied, I said my mental health is in the fucking ringer. I applied to be an offshoresman. My dad was like, bullshit. I'm not bullshitting you. No, you're not bullshitting.

SPEAKER_04 26:24

I know you. Listen, I know you well enough. You were not fucking bullshitting you.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

I just applied to be a railroad conductor too. Fuck. Tell me what buttons to press. Tell me how to stop this motherfucking train.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Cause what are we doing? Like, oh God.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

You know what's happening is that all of these billionaires and multi-millionaires, they um they have control of the politics, they have control APAC, uh, CPAC, uh, whatever the fuck you want to call all the PACs. Um they have control of the politics. And nothing gets approved unless these packs say they are gonna approve it. And what's happening to the economy is the Strait of Hormuse uh is it's closed again. And every time that bitch closed, yeah, it's closed because again, we are still at war with uh Iran. People think that we are the wealthiest country in the world. Might be, whatever. They say we are, right? You know how America lies, right? Um wealthiest country with no free health care, um homeless people, right? Um unhoused, sorry, unhoused, millions of unhoused people.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Um millions of people with millions of apartment units and houses sitting there fucking empty because people can't afford them.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

And I work in housing. That's like I do that. I'm a case manager that focuses on that. I see that shit. Half of the new apartment, they did a study. 43% of the new apartments that they're building in the city of Clarksville will remain empty. And their study putting them up. You talking about you want a you want a simple two-bedroom, one and a half bath, sixteen hundred dollars, but you want people to make three times the amount of rent. The average pay you're getting in Clarksville is at least $3,100 a month. How?

SPEAKER_04 28:42

I and this is these are things that I think about all the time. I feel like we're gonna wake up in a couple of weeks, or maybe a couple of months. We're not gonna be in a recession because we're already in a recession. We're all we've been in a recession.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Surprise! I feel like we're going to wake up and Iran is going to send the United States of America message, and they're going to say, We fucked your economy. Ha ha ha. Because every time they close the Strait of Hormuz, we lose so much. Not just oil, not just fuel. This is hurting the entire fucking economy. The entire fucking economy. And people are sitting around acting like, oh, it's just normal. It's not, bitch. This is nothing that has happened in the last two, really, if we're gonna be honest.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

A year, just a year.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Yeah. That's been normal.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

You got three years left.

SPEAKER_04 30:03

Nothing has been normal. Every day we wake up and it's some motherfucking bullshit. And that's why I say we as black people have got to organize in our community because don't nobody care about us. If you are listening to this podcast, don't nobody care about black people. But black people. And that's it. I hate to break it down to you. It is what it is. What we are seeing right now is they are trying to hold us to, you know, and we'll get into it with Carmelo, Anthony, and everybody, but they are trying to teach us a fucking lesson.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Mmm. Mmm.

SPEAKER_04 30:51

Yeah. But what's going on at Ash's Corner?

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Well, there's that. Um, no. So I like I say that every day. Wellp, there's that. Um, so um, I'm gonna share a it's it's a it's it's it's a sweet but sad story. So I was filling out a job application today, and I have a young lady. I always use her as my reference. She was one of my previous supervisors, and I always put her down. But her email is like, it's her name, but it's kind of complicated because I always transpose the letters. So I always have to like, if I have to use her email as a reference, I always go directly to the email and copy it. Because some people's email addresses I can remember, but most times I can't. So I go, I click on the email to open it so I can copy the email address. And there was a picture that popped up of I'm a firm believer and I think every person has three loves, three romantic loves in his lifetime. And I saw this picture that I haven't looked at in almost 10 years of a particular somebody that I was very, very fond of. And I just broke down in tears. This man is so beautiful, he's married, has two beautiful daughters, and he never saw me that way. I was always friends on, and you know, out of respect for his marriage and her mother did not care for me at all, which from a mother's perspective I understand as a woman, but I just chose to politely exit the friendship. And seeing that really broke me today. I just think about like somebody that was once like y'all go from kicking it, I was your person, like even as a platonic friend, how he saw me, it still was like, yeah. Like I'd have met his parents, he's met my entire family. We've been kicking it for a very long time. So yeah, that sucks. So I guess what Ashley's corner is therapy do work. Well, it does. No, no, that's not the message. Therapy it does help, but therapy makes you realize that some shit just never go away as far as in feelings. Like I I didn't expect me to be sitting there crying, looking at a picture I haven't seen 10 years over somebody that wants I consider was part of my everyday. This person was a part of my everyday routine. And you know, as a woman, you have all these timelines on you to, you know, by this age, you you want to be married or have a kid, or you look and then as somebody who's never experienced reciprocal romantic love or has been in a relationship and who's given up on dating, it just it hurts. It really fucking does. It fucks with me a little bit. And I'm just like, wow. You know. So I would say I talked to my mom about it. I didn't talk to my friends about it. I talked to my mom about it. You know, she just did her motherly thing, let me vent. That's all I wanted to do, but it those feelings never leave. It just I guess they just transfer the other parts of your brain.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Or they when you do meet your soulmate. Cause I'm a firm believer of people having multiple I I don't know what it is, but I I'm a firm believer of there's just not one soulmate. I feel like people have multiple soulmates. Um, but I feel like when you meet your person, I feel like you can transfer that energy or the energy that you already had with that person, right? Um and you can use that energy for him. I don't know. I just feel like when you meet your person and when that person meets you, because you gonna meet your person. You're gonna meet your person. I know we're sitting here right here, and we're talking about, you know, like relationships and everything like that, but you're gonna meet your person.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

I don't even worry about it. And I know it's it's different for me and you, right? Like, I don't really think about it because to me and what I've learned in my therapy sessions is when it happens, it's gonna happen. And the only fucked up thing about it is being fucking patient. That's the fucked up thing about it.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

It's like, it's like, damn. You know what I'm saying? Because I know my person is out there. I do. I know my person is out there. And when it happens, I'm going to be ready.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

I think the fucked up thing though is like, god damn, can I get my person for the world go and the world war fucking over? And my person fucking leg and hand missing because it got blue for the fucking missile crisis. Like, can we speed this up? Um Yeah. I don't know. It's just, I don't know. Having a dating pool that's full of pissed shit and married people, it's just like I've, and it's so funny. I've had so many of my friends in my close circle, especially like my female friends. If dating has been coming up a lot, like I have two friends that recently just got into a relationship, as well as I have one good girlfriend of mine, my best friend that's been like dating, brought her a flip phone, she's living her best life. And I'm just like, they keep asking me, hey, when are you gonna get back out there? I'm just like, I can't bring myself to do it. I'm so tired of the disappointment. I don't know where to start or where even to look. So it's just like, now, I do believe there's a twin flame and the soulmate. I met my twin flame, and that motherfucker is cuckoo for cuckoo puffs. Co uh cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Whatever. He's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

Yeah, we we listen, we we know.

SPEAKER_00 37:44

Fucking crazy. We know.

SPEAKER_04 37:46

We yes. I'm I just hate that he has my name.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

So when I'm talking about TJ got the sauce, this TJ, Mark's like, bitch, why are you fucking talking? I'm like, no, this is podcast, friend, not this. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:11

Even when we was we was in Clarksville and you was talking about and they were your friends was like, what? Hold on, wait a minute. I was like, no, no, no, no. Different nigga.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Different nigga. Different nigga on time.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but no. We gonna, we gon' we gonna, you gonna find your person. I'm gonna find mine. Patience is a being patience is being patient is a bitch. It is. Because sometimes I be like, what the fuck? Like, like what I can cook, I can motherfucking wash clothes, I I smell good. Like, what the fuck's we doing? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 38:54

My thing was, I'm like, well, damn, is a bitch ugly? Like, am I shot? Like, what? I said, bruh, I know I ain't the prettiest thing in the world, but damn, it's like I think I'm at least a solid five, six on a good day.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

Then you see, you see these couples and you be like, God damn.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

You know what really fucks with you though?

SPEAKER_04 39:15

What?

SPEAKER_00 39:15

You live in the military community and you see the finest thing in the world, he's gonna have a nasty fat white bitch. And that happens so often, and you just sit there, you look at now when a black woman be a little old boy, you bitch, you're gonna die of a heart attack. But you and a bitch that's 500 pounds that wore gym shorts and bonnets and ugly, messy buns, and y'all got Jadens, Aidens, Cadens, and the Leah's and the Vales. Cause that the the the standards is so fucking different.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

Oh, the standards are it is different. It it is it is uh it's out of this world.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

I'm just like the the being a fat white woman and a fat black woman are two whole opposite experiences.

SPEAKER_04 39:55

Yeah. Because at the end of the day, you guys are still black women. You're opinionated, you have your own ideas, your thought processes, you have every you know what I'm saying? And educated. And educated. That's the difference. So, yeah, I'm I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry, boo. I'm sorry that your that Ashley Corner had, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Yeah. And it just, it was so weird. And then the shit happened at the end of my work day. I literally was like, let me, so I'm gonna do this application while I'm here. I'm focused. I did uh because you know when you be ready to get off from work, you're gonna do whatever you finish up and get the fuck up on there, so I'm gonna do this. I looked at the address and I just clicked the the email. I was like, Yeah. Damn.

SPEAKER_04 40:51

We're gonna find our person. I I honestly I am praying that you find your person before I find mine. Honestly. I really do. I I want you to have that love. I really do. I want that person to be all about you. Because when niggas be sitting here talking about, oh, I just need to find somebody, be careful what the fuck you praying for. Be careful what you send out to the universe. You need listen.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Because you can get it. I I got somebody, a motherfucking somebody. It's some kind of crazy too. Like I just I I was joking with my best friend. I said, well, whoever he is, he better hurry up because I'm about two seconds away. I turned into a mix. What your niggas want from my nigga? Yeah, bitch. I'm not even sick. Hey, I got 10% of optimism, but listen, 10% is better than better than 1%.

SPEAKER_04 41:46

So we're gonna we we're gonna keep with that.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

That's what I'm gonna turn into. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Well, speaking of niggas, these niggas won the game last night.

SPEAKER_04 42:00

Yeah, that's what I was gonna. Yeah. I really wanted you to introduce uh yeah, the Knicks won. They beat the uh San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals game four. And the list of celebrities and people that were there. Girl, that's that woman from SBU, Lord Jesus, she cracks me the fuck up.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Like she really games she over there.

unknown 42:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Yeah. I said, girl. I know these tickets were so expensive.

SPEAKER_04 42:39

Oh, hell yeah. I think they started. Hold on. Knicks game. I'm gonna look this shit up because they said they were running, hold on, tickets. Two Corsite Knicks tickets for game three. No, not game three. Hold on. Um, tickets game four. Hold on. Cause they said oh, baby, they started at $3,000. It says next ticket for game, next tickets for game four drop to $3,000 low. Get yours within hours to go one day ago. So that was like when the game was going. So I know. I know like them courtside seats, baby, had to range from a good. I want to say, oh God, let me see these ticket prices before we um damn. Okay. Ticket prices, game four. Hold on. Cause I know court, your uh courtside, it was. Let's see. Nick's ticket prices for game four drop by more than six thousand dollars on resale market. So What are we looking at? Damn it. Why can they just tell me the fucking price? Okay, Spurs fans face high sky prices for game five. Oh no, that's game five. Damn, come on, game four. Corsair tickets price at nearly $115,000 for NBA Finals Game Five at Frostbank Center. So if that, if they're pricing that at $115,000 a ticket for Game Five, it was definitely motherfuckers was paying $60 to $70K for game four. Easily. And courtside? Courtside and oh hell no. But yeah, I mean, congratulations to the Knicks. Um, they didn't think it was possible. But I mean, shit.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

They haven't been to like a championship game or something since I think the 90s.

SPEAKER_04 44:54

I mean, y'all, people be, I'm saying this is the Madani effect. I don't know. Everything in that fucking city.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

It's one right. That's what I said too, T.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

I don't know. I think Mad me shut up. I was gonna say something. I said, baby, I'm thinking um Madani, he he definitely he got he got the he got that aura around him. It is a strong fucking aura around him.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

He got the juice.

SPEAKER_04 45:24

He got the he got the sauce. He has the sauce.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

His wife, not so much for him.

SPEAKER_04 45:29

Yeah. Got it. All right. Um, let's move on to. Oh God. Let's move on to Fish University. Now, we addressed this a couple episodes ago, and I think we kind of talked about it last episode.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

Um I remember. I remember talking about it.

SPEAKER_04 45:54

No, I think it was a couple episodes ago, I think. I think we mentioned it. We didn't really get into it.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

I don't remember, but I'll trust you.

SPEAKER_04 46:02

Yeah. So Fish University addresses the quantum leap. So that's kind of like their response to building the fucking data center on a historical black university.

SPEAKER_00 46:17

But why the black university though? Y'all in the city. Vanderbilt.

SPEAKER_04 46:23

Lipscomb.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

That's what I'm saying, Libskam.

SPEAKER_04 46:25

Tribeca.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

Treveka. I'm so funny.

SPEAKER_04 46:29

So this university defends $400 million data center plans amid citywide. No, I do not want to sign up for Nashville Business Journal. Thank you. Um another one.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 46:49

Um Fish University defends $400 million data center plans amid citywide debate. Um as Backlash, uh, black backslash, what is they messed up this whole thing? Okay, backslash swells against the proposed data center project next to the Nashville Zoo. Okay. Yeah. So again, they're trying to So they're trying to build, first of all, I really don't fuck with zoos like that anyways, but to put a data center beside a fucking zoo is horrendous and direct.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

That is egregious.

SPEAKER_04 47:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Fucking egregious.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

A local university is putting the spotlight back on a similar endeavor on its campus. Fish University issued a statement defending its plans to build a $400 million data center facility on its North Nashville. And there you have it, folks. I don't need to, I don't need to, I don't need to read any more of this article. I don't need to read this shit at all. Because once they said North Nashville, because everyone knows, if you live in Nashville, if you lived in Tennessee or been born in Tennessee, you know where Fisher University and the Tennessee State University are located. They're both located in the North Nashville area.

SPEAKER_02 48:03

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 48:04

They are doing this because it is a predominantly black neighborhood. It is a after all the what they're trying to do, the gentrification, all of this stuff, they are putting this there because it is a predominantly black neighborhood. They will never put this shit, like we just said, if on Vanderbilt campus, on Lipswim's campus, on Belmont's campus. Hell, they wouldn't even put this shit on Middle Tennessee State University's campus or Austin P. But since it's the black, since it's a historical black university and they got niggers there.

SPEAKER_00 48:37

We'll put them niggas' health at risk.

SPEAKER_04 48:39

Yeah. Because we all know from the research and the data shows that every time a data center is built, the air, the toxins, the chemicals are causing people to have severe allergies, chest issues, multiple chest issues, strokes, heat strokes, and different forms of different diseases that they don't even know what's going on with them.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

It's been linked to cancers too.

SPEAKER_04 49:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

And I just feel like are y'all just trying to shut fisk down?

SPEAKER_04 49:18

Basically. Because you're go about that. Because why would you build a fucking why are we a university and a data center? Why? That doesn't even make sense. It makes sense because guess what? They're black students. That's what makes sense about it. You can you can uh uh write all of these comments, these notes down. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up. Why Fish University?

SPEAKER_00 49:46

Why and it's because and then I just think it's so it's so egregious the shit white people do sometimes because the reason why, if you don't know, if you don't know Tennessee's history, let alone Tennessee's black history, the only reason why we're noted as the music city was because of the Fisk the Fisk Jubilee singers who were um they're based out of Fisk University, obviously. They were the college's uh, well not quartet, it's their like choir, they're singers, they sing beautifully. Like if you're a young black kid in Tennessee, if you're a millennial and you one of your field trips, like for me, when I did my Delta debutillion, we had to, they made it seem like we was at an opera. We had to dress up and go see the Fisk Jubilee singers. I saw them down to middle school. Um field trips to see them. And you know, they were given that name by the Queen of England at the time in the 1800s. So it's just like to to to a historical landmark like that that gave Nashville's identity, that's what you're willing to do to it. But Josh Richard write everything else.

SPEAKER_04 50:59

So I'm not so according to Medium magazine, it says who profits from the Fish University data center, who cashes in when a data center arrives? Uh because Fish University has um has released no financial model, no ownership structure, and no revenue sharing terms, the only way to understand who benefits is to look at how these projects normally work. So they they've already comprised a list. Private developers, which of course they are, uh data center operators. They profit through long-term leasing or server space, power usage fees, the biggest revenue stream, tax incentives. Of course, Tennessee is just gonna give anything and they're gonna give tax incentives to every fucking corporation, wherever the who whoever wants to come to Tennessee, you're gonna get tax incentives. You ain't gonna pay shit for 10 years.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

And who's the fuck the St. Nashville don't run out of water? And it's mighty another thing that's agreed is we already have that data center in Memphis.

SPEAKER_03 52:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Y'all come to Middleton and affect the areas where black people are proportionately located.

SPEAKER_04 52:13

So it's racist. It is at this point we're not in Tennessee is for sale. Yeah. The state of Tennessee is for sale. The state, the black neighborhoods in Tennessee, hey everybody, corporations, black neighborhoods are for sale in Tennessee. Hey, corporation, if you want to come to black neighborhoods, you can. North Nashville, you want to go to um out east, you want to go to South Nashville. If y'all want to come down here, any group of uh of neighborhoods that don't have a um majority white base, that's for sale. You can put whatever the fuck you want to put. Data centers, oh yeah, that's our top priority right there. Um depreciation benefits, of course, real estate appreciation. If if this project follows the national pattern, the developer-operator, not the university, and I'm glad they put this shit right here. The developer, the operator, not the university, will capture the majority of a revenue. Likely benefit uh beneficiaries in this category. Um, let's see, the Don Hardin group, project manager, any uh equity partners or private investors building uh backing the build. Um Yeah. So right now they are, you know, they're going to have a city hall meeting. They're gonna have they're having town meetings as we speak right now. They're gonna have a city hall meeting because I think they have a signature over, I think, 10,000 people that have signed said, like, we don't, like, we don't want this shit over here in this neighborhood. Whether it's built on the fucking university, it's not gonna be in North Nashville. Because Fish University is not going to get in. I'm telling you, Fish University is not going to reap any of the fucking benefits of a fucking data center. And they're trying to make this seem like we're doing it for the students. No, you're not. You're not. When are we going to the students?

SPEAKER_00 54:12

Give them some new dorms.

SPEAKER_04 54:16

How about you upgrade and remodel all the buildings? How about that? Inside. This has nothing to do with students. This has nothing to do with education. This is all for profit. And the people, like Kendra said, the people aren't dumb.

SPEAKER_02 54:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

So, Fish University, you have a lot of explaining to do. Uh, I just talked to a woman, um, she she's a CVS manager, and she said she graduated from Fish University, and she just gets so mad talking about this because whoever is over fist, like the board of fists, like this is, I mean, it's just, it's, it's diabolical. It's diabolical. So, Fish University got a lot of explaining to do. Um, no one's really talking about it. Um, no one's really talking that it's on the board of fists. They're not talking about it. It's like they they're being paid, which they probably are being paid to keep their mouth shut. Um, yeah. So, yeah, Fish University, you will be held accountable. We're not gonna have no fucking data sending no goddamn North Nashville, bitch. Um, all right, let's uh, oh Lord. Always black people, it's always us. Um let's I'm gonna let you uh start this off because I feel like we our conversations this last week um on the phone and everything like that. I feel like um I want you to kick this off.

SPEAKER_00 55:47

Okay, so God. It's so much going on, and I think the thing is is similar simultaneously too, with as we stated, with what happened with that young man, um Carmelo Anthony, on the heels of what just happened. Oh freaking ladybugs. Well, what just happened I freaking ladybugs love you, honey. Bruh, every time I can be sitting back here all fucking day.

SPEAKER_04 56:21

Yep. And it won't start until you start doing the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 56:26

Yes. Anyway, um I just lost my damn footing. Hold on, let me get my thoughts back. That just really take your time, boo.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

This is our podcast.

SPEAKER_00 56:49

Um okay. So this is coming off the heels of the incident of um Ricky Chow Ricky Chow. Uh he just got acquitted June the 1st for killing, shooting a little black child, as TJ said earlier. Cyrus Carmack Belton, a fatal shooting took place outside of the gas station and killed him. This is to the Asian community. If y'all took y'all's anti-blackness and actually broke down your ideas of whiteness and your and your wanting to be in proximity to white people, we would have a better relationship community to community. Um I think a lot of black people, like TJ said, this shit is spiritual. A lot of black people are just fucking done. So it was so many Asian people online. Y'all deserve this, or that boy deserved it when he brought fucking water and he was chased after and was shot in his fucking back. Nobody deserved that. Had this happen to an Asian kid and the shoes on the other foot, stop Asian hate. Stop Asian hate. And again, I said this shit a few weeks ago. Y'all mad at niggas like we bombed Nagasaki in Hiroshima. Y'all think we imperialized y'all's fucking country when that absolutely was not the case. A lot of black people now are wanting to boycott, like, you know, no shopping, and then you no shopping at Asian businesses or pursuing their restaurant. Now you got Asian people, and I'm seeing a lot of nasty ass across the Asian diaspora. You know, everything is made as Asia. Y'all can't give us up. Y'all are niggers and y'all don't got shit. We have China, y'all have Chinatowns because of the civil rights movement. Everything y'all fucking got, we gave it to you. We gave you the blueprint to do the shit, but y'all took our blueprint and assimilated that too. Because that's what everybody else do the like shit. So don't fucking forget the hand that fade you. But you know what? I got you one better. We finna do y'all motherfuckers like we did Target. We are finna clean y'all the fuck out. I don't give a damn how inconvenienced you are. I don't give a damn if you have to go out of your way because gas is high. Fuck that. If you can shop at a black-owned business or either black-owned business, utilize black services shit, barter. Let's bring back the barter system. Do it because it's getting to a time, it's it's so disrespectful, especially to be black in this country. I'm gonna share a story. I live in Clarksville, Tennessee. All right, I used to belong to like black and Clarksville pages, but I found no time. Well, damn, it's a lot of white, a lot of Asian. So this black guy in the black Clarksville chat just a few days ago, and the only reason why I found out about this is through my friend because I deleted the group. Because I'm just like, this is not a black Clarksville page. It's nothing but white and others in here. So he posted, like, hey, no support in Asian businesses we're finna sick to black. Do you know how much backlash he got? He got banned from a group as a black man in a black Clarksville group. And the crazy thing is the comments that I'm seeing online, like, those boys deserve to be hung or they deserve to be shot. Y'all are making these anonymous ass messages through your online social media when moderators can tell it's you. And the crazy thing about all this, and it's not really crazy because it's always been this way. These are your doctors, your lawyers, black women. These are the people that sell us the products that we use every day who saturated our fucking market so where we can't get in. So you know what? There's an African woman in the city of Clarksville who owns a super nice hair store. Is her stuff a little bit more expensive? Fuck yeah. It is. But you know what? I don't give a fuck. I'm going. If I don't know how to make sushi, if I if I can't, I'ma learn to make butter chicken sushi and pho my goddamn self. There's enough recipes online on how to fucking do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:08

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:10

Um I've already been doing my own nails. I could find me somebody else to do my fucking I'm not doing this shit with y'all anymore because y'all don't respect us. If it wasn't for black people, y'all wouldn't have an economy. Y'all wouldn't have a fucking land to stay, a leg to stand on. So time's out for playing nice. Time's out for POC. This is why niggas like to be called niggas. We are not no such thing as pop of people. It's there's no such thing as POC solidarity because y'all Asians, and we know white people want to show their hands, that's what they do, but yeah, a lot of y'all disappointed me. Um a lot of y'all's industry based off of the backs of us. Without black people, y'all wouldn't have a an international music market known as K-pop. All y'all do is regurgitate the recipes that we used 10 to 15 to 20 years ago and repackage that shit. Y'all steal our shit. Bar to bar for bar. Y'all, the the hair industry, no, shit that keeps y'all afloat. I'm not fucking doing it and I'm not park taking in it. So that's leading us into our next settlement. I mean our next segment. I know this is black places to do and hang out in Nashville, but I'm coming out with a Clarkson one next week. I'm just and the thing is, I'm really having to do research because the shit that has a black face on it is not black owned. So now I finna bring some shit out of the closet. And I know some people are about to hate me, but I don't give a fuck. But let's do the right thing. Let's go down to see where niggas need to go in Nashville. Noor. Roasted, Bungalow 10, Jar 10, Slim Husky's Pizzas, Plain Jane, Duco's Pizza Bar, Vibes, Makeshift, Sugar High, The National Museum of African American Music, Nearest Green Distillery, Steel J uh, excuse me, Steel G-I-N Lounge, Steel Gin Lounge, Chicago Home of Chicken and Waffles, The Germantown Pub, Bag Ladies, Jefferson Street Sound Museum, Soul of America Tours, Suite 1225, Rhythm and Spice, Soul Antioch, 1824 Kitchen and Cocktails, The Loading Dock, The Creativity Bar, Frisk Art Museum, which often have black exhibits and jazz concerts, Rudy's Jazz Room, Fisk University's Carl Van Vetchen Gallery and Aaron Douglas Gallery. All these are black-owned establishments in the city of Nashville. And I know I need to do a better job about keeping up with that, but it's fucking high time. This is part of the organization that TJ is talking about because if we didn't have this mindset, the Montgomery Bus Boycott wouldn't have happened.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:07

Correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:10

If he didn't have this, if we didn't have this mindset, if we didn't have this uh headset, damn it. If we didn't have this mindset, excuse me, we wouldn't have been Target is still struggling. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:23

From And they keep on trying to, you know, have these commercials with black people and saying, oh, we got this in Target. It's a wrap. Because y'all folded. Y'all folded under pressure and we we saw you for who you truly are.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:37

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:38

So I want to say this as well. Um, this is from the uh the uh Equidity Alliance. Um so these are some of the gas stations and beauty supplies and like markets that are black-owned. Um so Sweats Market Gas Station off of uh 702 28th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. We have Crown Love Beauty Supply, um 887 Bell Road, Antioch, Tennessee. Um we have Al Kaboo Land Images Bookstore, uh 2721 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:23

That is a monument at this point.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:26

Yes, that's a historical book.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:28

That legendary, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:30

Legendary bookstore.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:31

Yes. Um Dollar City Convenience Store, 845 Briley Parkway, um, Nashville, Tennessee, A M Marketplace, International Grocery Store, 900 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, suite 109, Nashville, Tennessee. Stay Fresh Cleaners, Dry Cleaning Services, 755 Uh Mormon's Arm Road, Nashville, Tennessee. Save a lot, Murphy's borough. Pike Grocery Store, 1113 Murphy's Boro Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. Save a Lock Gallatin Pike South, 1134 Gallatin Pike South, Madison, Tennessee. And then Save a Lock Clarksville Pike Grocery Store. 2400 Clarksville Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. These are all black-owned. Okay. They also, if you want to go to um, you can go to the uh equityalliance.org um and they have Nashville, Tennessee, Murphysboro, Tennessee, Clarksville, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:36

The Equity Alliance. The Equity Alliance.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:38

The Equity, yeah. Hold on. Yes, the Equity Alliance. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why. Oh, because you know what? Here, they here, hold on. Yes, the Equity Alliance. There you go. Sorry. I was like, hold on, what is that? The drawings and everything. I'm like, baby, that is not, yeah. But yes, the Equity Alliance. But yeah, they have Nashville, Tennessee, Murphy'sboro, Tennessee, Clarksville, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee. They have all of these locations where they are all black-owned and shop black. So we are going to do our part on the Black Paradigm to make sure you guys know about all the black spaces, the black restaurants, the black grocery stores, dry cleaning nail bars that are in our city or around in Tennessee. Because at the end of the day, just like Ashley was talking about, they use our money to fund their neighborhoods. They use our black dollars to fund their businesses, to fund their schools, to fund their Chinatown. Exactly. And you know, I'll never forget. Um five, I think I want to say five years ago, um, I was talking to my friend Alex, and he is, he's Korean. And he told me verbatim, he said, a lot of Asian people here don't like black people.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:04

That's not a secret.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:06

And I said, I said, yeah, I know that. And he was like, no, no, no. He was like, it goes deeper than that. He goes, they will use your money, but they don't want you in the, they don't want you. I said, oh, I already know that. I was like, I've been known that. He was like, so I'm telling you, he was like, because we're really getting to, like, we're getting to know each other. He goes, I wouldn't shop around here. He goes, because they do not want you guys in their business. They only want the dollars. That's it. And I said, Yeah, I know that. I said, you know, um, and he says, the anti-blackness in these Asian communities run deep. And I want you to know that. I know you know, you know, but he was like, I just want you to know like the anti-blackness. I said, Yeah, because a lot of Asian communities lust to be around whiteness.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:03

Then presumably they, you know, they call Asian people the modern minority. What the fuck is that about?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:10

It was systematically, the the government systematically created that. The government, by the way, the American government systematically created they used to further divide. Yeah. To tell us to tell us that, well, they can do it, you guys can do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:31

We've been fucking doing it. I knew Asians had lost their goddamn mind when they were mad about black people being in Harvard's Ivy Leagues, and when the statistics came out, y'all benefited more from affirmative action than we fucking did.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:45

Now look at you.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:47

What do you say? I said, now look at you. Why y'all are mad at black people? Y'all need to be bad at them white women as buying their spots in them Ivy Leagues.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:59

They literally, they literally sat there and lied to y'all's faces, said we were gonna help y'all get into Harvard, get into all of these, these, um, these private, these Ivy League colleges, and they'll look at you, struggling. And ask black people, do we give a damn? We don't. Because y'all never want, y'all never have liked us, even though we have helped y'all more than you know. Without the civil rights movement, y'all motherfuckers wouldn't even be over here.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:30

Huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:31

Y'all motherfuckers wouldn't even be over here without the civil rights movement. And people always forget, well, y'all don't forget, y'all know. Y'all just want to attain and lust and and get close to whiteness as as much as you can. So at the end of the day, uh we're gonna stand on that. We're gonna stand on black businesses. Um, I'm not going to any gas stations, but I'm just going to Costco. Honestly.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

I'm going to Costco or and I'm going to if I'm going to be like gas the corn store because they've always been racist and rude as fuck for the most part.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:09

Yeah, I I I'm going to be looking up black gas stations when I'm traveling. I'm going to be stopping there. Um Green Book.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:18

We need to the green book.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:20

Green book. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:21

That's that's whoever this young lady, I think she brought it back.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:25

Yeah, she did.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:27

This will be the prime opportunity to keep that motherfucking green book updated or have the app like, hey, put the screen in and put all the black.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:35

Mm-hmm. And I see a lot of black businesses being like overwhelmed by the the the because we're doing our job. We baby, black people, they are asking questions. Do you ship? Do you like, do you deliver? Do you like and I understand that a lot of the black businesses, like the hair care products, the the dry cleaning services, they're getting overwhelmed. But you have to understand we have people that, we have black people in IT, we have black people in marketing, we have black people in infrastructure.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:07

Okay?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:08

We need to reach out to one another. We need to reach out to one another. We need to get ideas, we need to formulate, we need to create a cohesive structural streamline. Okay? I'm telling you, this, I don't know. I'm I just I feel it in the air, Ashley. Something spiritual is happening. And, you know, it I'm proud. I am I am proud of us because our ancestors, they died for us to be doing this. You know what I'm saying? They died for us to really figure out, okay, we can do this. We've done this several fucking times over and over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:58

But I think this time the only way we, the only reason why we have to keep fucking doing it over is because white people get jealous of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:07

Well, not this time. See, I think this time is gonna be different because um we know, like we between between millennials, Gen Z, like I I feel like we're like, nah, no. And even when you were talking about that Clarksville, that Clarksville group, yeah, you can go on, they can go and delete that page. Because why are white people in a black Clarksville?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:31

The moment you invite of them in there, so many Hispanic people, all these people say, why are you just posting it's a fucking black business. It's black Clarksville. That's why like I wanted to start Black Clarksville 2.0. I can't start a group. I'm banned from starting groups on Facebook. And I ain't even did shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:53

What? How you what? I'm banned.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:02

Oh, baby. Facebook and meta know who the fuck we are. I want to see if I can start a group on Facebook. Because you know, I don't get on Facebook like that. Like I just see the posts and stuff like that, people's birthdays and stuff, and I be like trying to wish them happy birthdays and all of that bullshit. That's the only time I use Facebook. But for that, that's some bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:25

They say you black power bitch, you ain't gonna start a black page today. Because I'm I'll be super you got two black parents, four black grandparents, and eight. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:36

Yeah. Yeah, I I just feel like any group that has black in it and I see white people has been I'm like, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:48

Jeff scare.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:50

Delete, I blocked. Any group that says black anything, and I see nothing, and uh, I see anything but black, yeah, I'm out. Sorry. Sorry, not sorry. Um, but yes, the um the Equity Alliance, uh, yes. Follow that page, go on there. They have so many businesses, they have um events, you can invest um all of this, and we're gonna push that. Um we're gonna keep pushing that on our um on the episode, the downloads episode uh below. So yeah, just click that link and you can get uh all the information you need. All right. Um so go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:43

I just I just feel like take your time.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:58

I'm saying this as a black man. I see a lot of content creators, and I'm not gonna spend long on this. I see a lot of content creators and a lot of, you know, wannabe educators on Instagram and Twitter talking about we have to be safe and we have to do this and we have to, you know, we have to make sure we don't get, you know, you know, caught by the police. Let me tell you something. All of y'all motherfuckers, where were y'all at? Where were y'all at when the the the when it was going on? Y'all weren't really talking about it, but now all of a sudden it's um we have to, we have to be organized and we have to do this and we have to do that. Why won't y'all why won't y'all helping this man find an appeal lawyer? Huh? I mean, he has one now. He has about several, several appeal lawyers are trying to help him out. Carmelo Anthony, if you don't know. Y'all are sitting here talking about we have to be very careful. This this black this black teenager stood up for himself. Those four white boys know exactly what the fuck they were doing. And it's so funny because they always need more than two or three people to take down a black man. It's always in groups, it's always in motherfucking groups, and I can never I just it's it's the it's the evilness, it's the um it's it's a pure unmitigated call. Yeah, because why your son, your son is dead because your son and his brother and two other white boys decided that we're going to pick on a black man, a black boy. He doesn't deserve to be sitting in this area. And then you have the wrinkle face, stupid ass motherfucking daddy talking about he should have been hung. I really, I I honest, I'm I'm I really it's just the the the privilege of being white in this country that you can just say whatever the fuck you want to say.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:40

And get away with whatever you want to get get away with. I mean we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:46

A whole white jury. That came let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:50

The lawyer of the black family, he has pictures that came out with the fucking judge. And that was the quickest decision they ever made.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:58

Three hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:59

Three fucking hours.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:01

They deliberated in three motherfucking hours. There has to be, there that's why I want, I really want black people. I want us to be lawyers, I want us to be in criminal law, defense law, whatever law that is, because now we are having to, and then I'm praying for Carmelo Anthony's family and what they're going through. Because to defend yourself as a black man in this country, you damned if you do and you damned if you don't. So you mean to tell me Carmelo Anthony was supposed to sit there and get his motherfucking ass whooped by four white boys?

unknown 1:19:55

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:56

Nobody compelled their actions or or at least just oh it I know it makes you mad.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:04

I know it makes you mad, and it's just like everybody, everybody, you can bring a gun and shoot two people, Kyle Ritten house and get off. In a huh?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:19

In a church at that.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:20

Yeah. You can be an Asian man and shoot a 14-year-old black teenager in the back and get off. Or you can just kill a black teenager for walking on the wrong on on on the street, on the sidewalk. I know what they're trying to do, but we have to be better. We have to organize again. I know I've been using this word the whole fucking time on the podcast, but when I say organize, I mean organizing silent. We have to be two, three, four steps ahead every single time. Now I hope the appeal lawyers they take their time. They take, you know, to verify and to cross-examinate each of these appeal lawyers because they're going to need the best appeal lawyer in the state of fucking Texas. You're not finna tell me an all-white jury that convicted this boy, convicted this, this, this. He was a staple in the fucking community. Carmel Carmelo Anthony saved a young person from drowning. He was a staple in the fucking community. But yet, he can't defend himself. He didn't know he was gonna kill that boy. He know he he didn't know he was gonna kill that boy. He was just defending himself. Well, why did you have a knife in the book bag? Bitch, what do you mean? Why do you have a gun in your car for protection, bitch? So I um I am praying for Carmelo Anthony. I need to find the the a legitimate fundraiser so I can donate some money. Um, because we uh I'm I'm definitely donating money. I'm definitely donating money to his appeal. I am, I I feel, I feel in my heart that this this man was protecting himself. Um and any person would have done the same. You're not finna jump me, bitch. One of y'all is getting one of you, y'all gonna y'all gonna learn today. All right. Um before we exit, do you have anything, um, Ashley, that you want to talk about? I know we, you know, we had a whole segment on black business. Um, the Equity Alliance, we're gonna put that on the bottom of the uh below the episode. Um do you have anything you want to talk about? Music, movies that you're listening to, that you're watching? Ashley?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:33

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:34

Movies, music. Um You said you're exasperated.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:41

Damn, no, for real. Like, I'm just from dealing with I deal with at work and then doing something I love and having to cover these stories, it always just makes me just like check out. You get tired of the same thing. And I know it's always a change that's gonna come. I don't want to hear that shit. Mad as hell.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:04

Honestly, when I saw that fucking, I'm gonna tell y'all like this. When I saw that jury convict that boy and find him guilty, I said, I said, I wish they just burned the fucking town down. All I said, I said, burn the fucking town down. I don't give a damn. And then I said, TJ, I thought about it. I said, no, that's what they want us to do. They want us to burn the city down.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:30

We gotta be three, four steps smarter than that. Because that's easy. That's easy to go. That's that's that's some of their shit. That's what they did to us.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:40

I'm slick nervous though, because rewind a few weeks ago, I told y'all about Chud McBealder, that racist white dude who shot the his trial's coming up in July, and there's a lot of white supremacist groups saying that if he doesn't get off, every black person in Clarksville is in danger.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:01

Well, black people load the fuck up. Get your guns ready, black people. Because I don't think he's because they pulled up all his Twitter, like all his his Twitter account, they pulled up his Insta uh Instagram account. I don't I don't think he's he he's not getting off. A lot of his Twitter um and his threads are premeditated. So yeah. But uh we'll we'll talk about we'll talk about that motherfucker, that pig next week. Um you got anything that you're watching music-wise or anything like that? Ashley?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:43

Um, music-wise, I want to give a shout out to Everything Pinker by Mona Leo Featured Tiza Touchdown. I know I talked about that song before, maybe like last week, but it's an amazing song. Cinema Rotation as a pink girly. Loved it. There is an alternative singer that I have been following for years. His name is Nick Hakim. The song he's most known for is called Green Eyes that came out in 2017. He released three over the course of maybe last few months, he released three songs. Every motherfucking song is cold. His name is Nick Hakeem. It's called I Can See Fire. Um, so I've been listening to those three songs and his project debuts in June. Um I've been kind of in my alternative hip-hop hat. So Tribe Call Quest, The Funky Homo Sapiens, Conilinguis, Saba, you know, the um shit, the diggable planets, just the the far side, the alternative, fun, cool rap. I've been into that the last few weeks. What about you, babe? What you listening to?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:03

Well, I want to go see Disclosure Day. Uh, it's in theaters today. I haven't seen it yet because it came out, it came out today. I want to go see it. Um, but I gotta be at work at 8 o'clock tomorrow. So I mean, honestly, if I want to go see it, um, let me look at AMC real quick. I don't give a damn. I I mean shit. Let me see. I really, I honestly, I really do want to go see it. Um where is it?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:42

Do they even have this shit? Um hold on.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:48

I thought it came out this week. Hold on, am I? No, no, I'm not. Hold on. You said what?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:03

I thought it came out a little later.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:06

June Hold on, what's today? June 11th? It's the 11th, yeah. Yeah. Today June 11th. Oh. Shit. Okay. So AMC, when you you have to go, okay. 11 o'clock. So I can go see it, right? I can go see it today. Indobe. Let me see. It might be full.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:27

Damn.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:29

No, available. Okay, cool, cool, cool. I can go see it tonight. But no, I want to go see Disclosure Day. Um, music that I've been listening to. Uh let me let me pull it out. Have you heard that uh new French Montana song with uh Remy Ma?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:48

Yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:50

The only part I like on this Remy Ma's bar site.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:54

Have you got this in French? Hold on. Let me show you how I be looking at Fresh Montana for the most part. Oh God. I sir, where is your where is your bicycle?

SPEAKER_03 1:29:13

I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:15

This is how I react to Fresh Montana. Most features from other people.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:24

How that Lil Wayne, when I think about uh He's really good on features.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:31

He really is.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:34

Yeah, I like Yeah, he's better on features.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:38

Yeah, French Montana is really good on features. Um I've been listening to that new Bryson Taylor uh drop the low. Uh I think it's really good. You say what? It is.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:49

I said I have to, it is really good.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:51

Yeah. Um, and then let's see, LMA. I've been listening to some LMA, um, Gibeon uh and that new black.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:07

Yeah, I I love him.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, that's what I've been listening to. Um, and then I might go see disclosure on day tonight, y'all. I got me a couple of edibles, so you know I might oh, and speaking of edibles, you know how fucked up Tennessee is. July 1st, you won't be able to get flour or edibles uh starting July 1st. Um, anything over or so anything at 0.3% or over, you will not be allowed to have in the state of Tennessee, which goes to show you that Tennessee is moving five steps behind once again. That's why we need you guys to vote for Jerry Green for governor so she can um she's a white woman, but hell, she's trying to legalize marijuana. And I'm all for it, baby. Legalize marijuana for good. Huh? What'd you say? Use your whiteness for good. Use your whiteness for good. All right, guys. Well, oh, before we go, Old Spice came out with a new cologne mist collection. It's called Old Spice Alchemist. So I got these. It's called the new cashmere vanilla wood cologne mist. It smells so good. And then they got, shout out to Old Spice. They got this Velvet Sage and Driftwood that I just picked up today. It smells amazing. Um, so if you're on Oldspice.com, go pick these up. They're new and they smell really fucking good. No um uh parabens, no trade-off, no nothing. So yeah. And with that being said, guys, uh my name is TJ, aka TJ with the sauce.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:02

My name is Ashley, aka Ashley Great.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:05

Ashley Great's about to go to bed, you guys. Um once again, once again, once again, our email link, our email link is the blackparadigm77 at gmail.com. For all y'all niggas in the back, our email address again is the blackparadigm77 at gmail.com. Guys, thank you so much for just listening to us. Um, I know these last couple of episodes have been just really heavy, but at the same time, we got to keep you guys informed because we love you, we love the community. And I want to say one thing before we leave. I know we talk about diaspora and the community and all of that, but at the end of the day, black is black. We love all black people, and we will have a discussion about the black diaspora next week. And with that being said, we will see you guys next week. Love you. Ashley's over here going to bed, honey.

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